Instagram stalking and dating statistics 2026: who people check, and when

A check is one request for an account’s recent follows on klupt.io. Pairing each check with the device it came from shows how many people come back to the same account, and how soon.

• The Klupt Re-check Rate is 23.0% for November 2026: that share of the Instagram accounts people checked on klupt.io were checked again by the same person within the two-week window; 9.8% were checked three or more times and 3.9% five or more times (Klupt Checking Report, November 2026).

  Klupt Re-check Rate. Klupt Checking Report, November 2026: 1,624 device-and-account pairs, 2,631 checks, 28 October – 10 November 2026.

• 72.4% of people who re-checked an account did so within 24 hours of their first look. 6.3% of all checked accounts were looked up again more than a day later, and 3.6% more than three days later. The most-checked single account was opened 51 times by one person.

  Klupt Checking Report, November 2026: 373 repeated pairs.

• 88.8% of people checked exactly one account; 8.5% checked two and 2.7% checked three or more. Ten people checked five or more different accounts and two checked ten or more.

  Klupt Checking Report, November 2026: 1,382 devices.

• 6.9% of people came back on a different day and 1.4% were still checking a week or more after their first visit. 6.6% went on to set up tracking with alerts for new follows.

  Klupt Checking Report, November 2026: 1,382 devices; 91 devices (74 accounts) started tracking.

In the Katch the Ick extension the picture is similar: 14.8% of device-and-account pairs were looked up more than once in nine days, and 84.1% of people looked up a single account (Klupt extension lookups, 2–10 November 2026, n = 1,070). Of the 969 searches people submitted in the extension, 68.0% were typed fresh, 21.2% re-opened a recent search and 10.8% opened an account they were already tracking.

Klupt logs the country of each check. For the 78 countries that use a single time zone (which leaves out the United States, Canada, Russia, Australia, Mexico and Indonesia) every check can be converted to the local hour, which is the number that matters for a habit like this.

• The Klupt Late-Night Index is 19.3% for November 2026: that share of checks of who someone recently followed happen between midnight and 6 am local time. 27.6% happen between 10 pm and 3 am (Klupt Checking Report, November 2026).

  Klupt Late-Night Index. Klupt Checking Report, November 2026: 1,856 recent-follows checks on klupt.io from 78 single-timezone countries, 28 October – 10 November 2026, local time.

• Midnight is the single busiest hour (7.3% of checks fall between 00:00 and 00:59), ahead of 10 pm (6.8%) and 5 pm (6.8%). The quietest hour is 5 am, with 5.9 times fewer checks than midnight. A third of checks (33.6%) happen in the evening, 6 pm to midnight.

  Klupt Checking Report, November 2026: same sample.

• On desktop, in the Katch the Ick extension, only 13.4% of lookups happen between midnight and 6 am; the peak is 5 pm and the afternoon (noon to 6 pm) carries 34.9% of lookups. Late-night checking is a phone habit.

  Klupt extension lookups from 52 single-timezone countries, 2–10 November 2026, n = 833, local time.

• 36.3% of checks happened on a Saturday or Sunday, against the 28.6% that an even spread over the week would give. Sunday was the busiest day of the fortnight.

  Klupt Checking Report, November 2026: 2,631 checks over 14 days (two of each weekday); Tuesday 10 November counted until 20:00 UTC.

Download the hour-by-hour data (CSV, 24 rows) for the three series above. The countries contributing most checks to the local-time sample were Italy, Türkiye, Germany, Thailand, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Vietnam, Romania, South Korea and Spain.

• 68.2% of checks ask who an account recently followed; 31.8% ask who recently followed it. Of the 455 people who opened a followers list, 445 also opened the follows list; 67.8% of people never looked at followers at all (Klupt Checking Report, November 2026).

  Klupt Checking Report, November 2026: 2,631 recent-follows and 1,226 recent-followers checks on klupt.io, 28 October – 10 November 2026.

• In Klupt’s Telegram bot, the most-tapped button is Stories: 1,941 taps from 227 people, 8.6 each, against 2.0 taps per person for “who they follow” (560 taps, 282 people). 113 people tapped the private-profile option and 100 set up tracking.

  Klupt Telegram bot (@kluptbot) events, all time to 10 November 2026: 12,440 events from 1,122 Telegram accounts.

• Of 1,085 Instagram stories captured from 90 watched accounts, 79.4% were videos and 20.6% images. The median watched account posted 3 stories in the eight-day window.

  Klupt story watcher, 3–10 November 2026: 90 public accounts watched, 1,126 checks, 1,085 stories captured, 189 alerts sent to 84 people.

• After the results page itself (3,006 views from 1,546 devices), the most-visited tool on klupt.io is the unfollowers checker (415 views, 244 devices), ahead of the recent-follows landing page (376 views) and the extension page (255 views).

  klupt.io page views, 1–10 November 2026: 10,553 views from 4,142 devices.

What you can see about stories, and in what order viewers appear, is covered in Instagram story viewer order; the unfollow side in who unfollowed me on Instagram.

These are the public profiles people chose to check on klupt.io up to 10 November 2026, with the counts shown on their profile at the time. They are not influencers. The median checked account has 1,045 followers and follows 325 accounts (see the Instagram statistics report for the full distribution).

• 41.0% of the accounts people check have fewer than 10 posts, and 17.0% have never posted. The median checked account has 19 posts (Klupt Checking Report, November 2026).

  Klupt Checking Report, November 2026: 1,184 checked profiles with a post count.

• 25.4% of checked accounts have an empty bio, 23.9% have a link in their bio, 12.8% are business or creator accounts and 9.6% are verified.

  Klupt Checking Report, November 2026: 1,184 checked profiles.

• 24.5% of checked accounts follow more people than follow them.

  Klupt Checking Report, November 2026: 1,184 checked profiles.

In other words, the typical account someone wants to keep an eye on is a quiet personal profile: a few hundred to a few thousand followers, under twenty posts, and often no bio. The same pattern holds for the free Instagram follower tracker.

• 65.9% of people who open a profile in the Katch the Ick extension run into a private account at least once (Klupt extension events, August to November 2026, n = 669 devices). 31.5% went on to track an account from the extension.

  Klupt extension events, 21 August – 10 November 2026: 669 devices opened at least one profile in Katch the Ick; 441 of them saw the private-account screen at least once.

• 80.1% of checked profiles have at least one private account among their 25 newest follows; the median is 3 private accounts out of 25, and for 9.5% of profiles half or more of their newest follows are private (Klupt Checking Report, November 2026).

  Klupt Checking Report, November 2026: 954 public profiles with recent follows stored; the 25 newest follows of each.

• 19.8% of checked profiles follow no verified account at all among their newest 25. Where Klupt could label at least three of a profile’s new follows, 47.7% followed a mix of women and men, 25.9% mostly women and 26.4% mostly men.

  Klupt Checking Report, November 2026: 954 public profiles; 216 with at least three gender-labelled new follows.

• Among the labelled accounts, 51.7% of a checked profile’s newest follows are women, and 53.6% of its newest followers are women; 37.1% of newest followers and 19.5% of newest follows are private accounts.

  Klupt Following Report, November 2026: 22,771 recent follows and 21,618 recent followers of checked profiles; gender labels are automatic and approximate.

Private accounts are where the “Instagram viewer” scams live. What you can honestly see on one is on the private Instagram viewer page, and how to view a private Instagram account without getting scammed is in the guide.

For context, the most-cited survey figures on how couples, exes and singles use social media and phones, all from Pew Research Center, credited with the year and linked to the primary report.

• 53% of social media users have used social media to check up on an ex or former partner; 70% of 18- to 29-year-olds have, as have 56% of single people and 45% of married people (Pew Research Center, 2020).

  Pew Research Center, Dating and Relationships in the Digital Age, 4,860 US adults surveyed 16–28 October 2019, published May 2020.

• 34% of partnered adults have looked through their partner’s phone without them knowing: 42% of women against 25% of men, and 52% of 18- to 29-year-olds against 13% of those 65 and over. 70% say it is rarely or never acceptable (Pew Research Center, 2020).

  Pew Research Center, 2020, partnered US adults.

• 23% have felt jealous or unsure because of how their partner interacts with others on social media: 34% of 18- to 29-year-olds, 37% of unmarried partners against 17% of married ones, and 29% of women against 17% of men (Pew Research Center, 2020).

  Pew Research Center, 2020, partnered adults whose partner uses social media.

• 51% of partnered adults say their partner is at least sometimes distracted by their phone when they are talking, and 40% are at least sometimes bothered by the amount of time their partner spends on it (Pew Research Center, 2020).

  Pew Research Center, 2020, partnered US adults.

• 75% of partnered adults have shared their phone passcode with their partner, 62% an email password and 42% a social media password (Pew Research Center, 2020).

  Pew Research Center, 2020, partnered US adults.

• 81% of social media users see posts about other people’s relationships at least sometimes, and 28% have posted about their own dating life or relationship; among single people who are looking, 33% say those posts make them feel worse (Pew Research Center, 2020).

  Pew Research Center, 2020, social media users.

• 30% of US adults have used a dating site or app, including 53% of those under 30 and 51% of lesbian, gay and bisexual adults; 10% of partnered adults met their partner online, rising to 20% of partnered adults under 30 (Pew Research Center, 2023).

  Pew Research Center, Key findings about online dating in the U.S., 6,034 US adults surveyed 5–17 July 2022, published February 2023.

• 56% of women under 50 who have used online dating received unsolicited sexually explicit messages or images, and 43% had someone keep contacting them after they said they were not interested (Pew Research Center, 2023).

  Pew Research Center, 2023, women under 50 who have used dating sites or apps.

• 51% of US adults use Instagram, including 79% of 18- to 29-year-olds; 56% of women use it against 45% of men (Pew Research Center, 2026).

  Pew Research Center, Social Media Fact Sheet, survey fielded 30 January to 18 June 2026.

• Klupt Checking Report, November 2026: aggregate counts over Klupt’s API activity log for successful recent-follows and recent-followers requests on klupt.io between 28 October and 10 November 2026 (2,631 and 1,226 requests), grouped by anonymous device id and by the account requested. Re-check figures count device-and-account pairs; nobody is identified.
• Local time: each request carries a country code. Requests from countries with a single time zone were shifted by that zone’s November offset (daylight saving where it applies); multi-zone countries, including the United States, were left out of the hour analysis only. Result-page views come from klupt.io page-view logs for 1–10 November 2026.
• Checked profiles: the 1,184 profiles stored for accounts people checked on klupt.io, with the public counts shown at the time; post, bio and business flags are Instagram’s own. The “newest follows” figures use the 25 most recent follows stored for each of the 954 public profiles that had them.
• Extension: anonymous events from the Katch the Ick extension since 21 August 2026 (profile opened, private-account screen shown, tracking started) and the outcome of each lookup between 2 and 10 November 2026. The country table uses countries with at least 25 lookups.
• Telegram and stories: button taps in the Klupt Telegram bot (all time) and the stories captured by Klupt’s story watcher for 90 public accounts people asked to watch between 3 and 10 November 2026. Only story type and count are used.
• Gender labels are Klupt’s automatic estimate from an account’s name and profile and are approximate; “other” includes brands and pages. 46,131 accounts had been classified by 10 November 2026 (44.2% men, 43.0% women, 12.8% other).
• Selection: the accounts are the ones Klupt users chose to check, so they skew toward the people a partner, friend or parent is curious about, not a random sample of Instagram. The two-week window also grew in volume from week one to week two, which is why day-of-week is reported only as a weekend share.
• Privacy: every figure is an aggregate. No usernames, IP addresses or individual lookups are published, and the CSV contains only hour-of-day totals.
• Updates: this page keeps the same address when the numbers are refreshed; the date under the heading and the report name tell you which edition you are reading.

Want to see it for one account? Enter any public username on the recently followed tracker and you get their newest follows, newest first, with the private and verified badges counted in this report.